Improvement in scythe-sneeds



UNITED STATES VGEORGE FARQUHAR, OF EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.V

IMPROVEMENT IN SCYTHE-SNEEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,175, dated July 12,181l3.

consent and allowance as inventor,) specified in the words following, towitz The sneed (in which and in the attaching of the Scythe-bladethereto the advantage of the improvement principally consists) isconstructed as follows: The stick numbered A in the draft, and to whichthe Scythe-blade is hung, is four feet in length for ordinary-sizedmowers. It is.slightly curved, as exhibited in the drafts, and aboutone. inch and a half thick. The scythe (marked F on the draft) isA hungon the sneed in the usual manner, (with a grasshook to sustain itpassing from the Scythe-blade through the sneed in the usual manner, andsecured on the hind side of the sneed with a thumb-burn) except that thesneed is turned farther around backward than on common sneeds, in orderto give a proper direction to the fixture for the lower or righthandnib. At the distance of`tifteen inches from the lower end or heel of thesneed a piece of wood some little smaller than the sneed itself ismortlsed into it. This piece of wood is represented on the draft byletter B, and extends at an angle of about forty-five degrees from thesneed,of the length of about twenty-two inches, and is held lirm in itsplace by another similar piece of wood, (designated on the draft byletter 0,) mortised therein about twelve inches from the angle at thesneed, and extending to the sneed and mor- Y tised therein also, thesneed A and the two pieces B and C so mortised therein forming nearly aright-angled triangle, of which the the said two pieces B and Cconstitute the base and perpendicular and the sneed the hy potenuse.`The firstdescribed piece B, being the perpendicular, hasits lengthextended about seven inches beyond the base, in order to t Vthereon thelower or right-hand nib. (Designated in the draft as D.) This lower nibis mortised into the extended perpendicular B of the triangle, as beforestated, for the right hand. The upper or left-hand nib, E, is mortisedint'othe sneed itself about two inches from the upper end, or both ribsmay be fastened on the places so designated for them by nib-rings suchas are used on common crooked sneeds. The perpendicular B of thistriangle, on which the lower nib is fastened, is thrown back at an angleof about forty-tive degrees from what would be a perpendicular llnefromthe sneed A where it is mortised into it, when the upper end of thesneed A is supported at its proper height, so as to let the soythe Frest properly on the ground, and thus enable the mower to stand moreerect and balance the Scythe more easily when using it.

The lines' of the triangle may be slightly curved to relieve the toolfrom the stiff appearance which straight lines would give it, as hasbeen done in the drawing annexed.

The great improvement in this inode of hanging a scythe, and that whichI claim as my invention, and for which I ask and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The combination of the additional arm B and brace O with theScythe-sneed A, the whole beingconstructed and operatingas abovedescribed.

This invention and improvement can also be used with slightmoditicatlons, as exhibited in the drawing'numbered 2, hereto annexed,with great advantage to cradling-scythes and cradles for cutting grain,and for which purpose [have also made, constructed, and applied the saidsneed to use.

Easton, Pa., November 2l, 1842.

GEORGE FARQUHAR.

Attested by- H. CLAY LONGNECKER, J AMES SNoDGRAss.

